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Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
Findings resolve “steppe hypothesis” enigma
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Transformer – Spreadsheet
Make your own AI by hand ✍️ exercises
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Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an outspoken advocate for low-density cities without skyscrapers. With this in mind, it’s hard to believe the tower design pictured above came from Wright. It’s called The Illinois , and it was planned to be a mile (1,609 meters, or 5,280 feet) in height. That’s more than fou
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Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
LLMs excel at text generation but fail at precise document extraction due to nondeterminism. | Pulse AI
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models
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The inevitability of the borrow checker
When defining a type in Inko , it's allocated on the heap by default. For example (using the syntax for the upcoming 0.18.0 release):
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Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
April 30, 2024. I decided to dedicate a week to migrate our main project at work (a multiplayer mobile game server in production for over 4 years) from Scala...
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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
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U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report
What the government didn't reveal is how many zero days it discovered in 2023 that it kept to exploit rather than disclose. Whatever that number, it likely will increase under the Trump administration, which has vowed to ramp up government hacking operations. In a first-of-its-kind report,
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Simulating water over terrain
If you don't want a long an boring introduction, skip directly to the virtual pipes method description . I will get a little bit sad if you do this, though x)
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US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
Trump paralysed the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB), a key element of the EU-US data transfer deal that allows EU-US data flows.
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Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc
Learn how AsciiDoc combines simplicity with advanced features. Create documentation that stands out, saves time, and ensures clarity.
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Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby
Introduction I created a Game Boy emulator in Ruby and released it as a gem called rubyboy! (I’d be happy if you could give it a star!) And now it runs in the browser using WebAssembly! Try the demo in your browser! Screenshots Rubyでゲームボーイのエミュレータを作りました！ カラー対応やWasmでブラウザ対応もやっていきたい💪 GitHub: https://t.co/hFwmZD6FNp…
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Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty
An interactive guide on making animations on the GPU
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OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
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Sand trafficking in Latin America
Criminal mafias are making massive profits from the illegal extraction and sale of sand for construction purposes.
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I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
Why I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
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What does it mean that MP3 is free?
The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without payin
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Of Course It's a Coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
Hello there! If you follow tech news, you might have heard about the Okta security incident that was reported on 1st of November. The TLDR of the incident was …
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The Sudoku Affair
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
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Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
One paper that caught my attention a bit ago was Selective attention in hypothesis-driven data analysis by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher. In their study, students who were given specific hypotheses to test were much less likely to notice an obvious “gorilla in the data” compared to students who explored the data…
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Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
We’re announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.
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You're missing your near misses
FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: the greater the impact to the organizat…
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Servo's progress in 2024
Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
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I'm Done with Ubuntu
A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.
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F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically design...